{
 "id": "building/grand-bazaar-istanbul",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "grand-bazaar-istanbul",
 "label": {
  "ar": "السوق المغطى الكبير",
  "en": "Grand Bazaar, Istanbul"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أقدم سوق مغطى كبير في العالم (1461) — 61 شارعاً وأربعة آلاف دكان في قلب إسطنبول العثماني.",
  "en": "The world's oldest great covered market (1461) — 61 streets and four thousand shops in Ottoman Istanbul's heart."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1461.0011841447804,
  "latest": 1462.0005202022996
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1461",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "bazaar",
  "built": {
   "edtf": "1461",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q505954"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أقدم وأكبر سوق مغطى في العالم في [[place/istanbul|إسطنبول]]؛ بدأه محمد الفاتح سنة 1461م وكبر حتى صار 61 شارعًا وأربعة آلاف دكان. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "يزوره يوميًا ما بين ربع ونصف مليون شخص؛ ما زال قلب التجارة التقليدية في إسطنبول. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/grand-bazaar-istanbul",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/bazaar-isfahan",
  "building/bazaar-tabriz",
  "building/bibi-khanum-mosque",
  "building/faisal-mosque",
  "building/hassan-ii-mosque",
  "building/khan-al-khalili",
  "building/kur-amir"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}